vnewb is my new project. It allows anyone to run a #Veilid node in their web browser.

It also provides a terminal that you can use to interact with your node, like you would when using veilid-cli.

Feel free to play with it:

http://vnewb.net

Note: due to a known limitation, it doesn't yet support HTTPS, so you'll get a warning from your browser.

Casual reminder: you are supposed to run your own mailserver

If you aren't operating your own mailserver by now, what is your excuse? Don't have the hardware? Get a VM with @OpenBSDAms. Too much effort? Nah, @mwl has you covered.

Never surrender the protocols.

Run your own mail server.

Revolt.

Rebel.

Capitalism is a hostage situation -Not an economy

Our current #mainstreaming path of paywalls stacked on paywalls isn’t life, it’s a trap, we need a way out. In our everyday lives, we’ve come to accept the absurd:

You pay to eat food grown on land you don’t own,

Pay to sleep under a roof that someone profits from,

Pay to drink water privatized by corporations,

Pay to breathe, because the air is poisoned by industries that sell you both the problem and the solution.

And if you miss a payment? Game over. That’s not a […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/capitalism-is-a-hostage-situation-not-an-economy/

Ich finds ja spannend, wie viele Leute gerade im Rahmen der Einführung von Werbung bei #WhatsApp nölen, man möge bitte nicht andere zentrale Dienste wie #Signal und Co empfehlen und nutzen, sondern föderierende wie #Matrix und #XMPP. Ich finde es nicht verkehrt, darauf hinzuweisen. Aber ignorant bis arrogant finde ich es, so zu tun als ob das alles total trivial und easy wäre. Die meisten Leute wollen einfach nur Chatten und und das im Idealfall auch möglichst sicher. Die mentalen Kapas für komplexe Lösungen sind leider zunehmend begrenzt.

XMPP und Matrix sind auch heute noch in der Föderation Clusterfucks, die meilenweit hinter der Usability und dem Komfort der zentralen Dienste hinterherhinken. Das liegt teilweise auch ihrer föderierenden Natur – aber wie weit sie dann tatsächlich von einer reibungslosen Nutzbarkeit in vielen Szenarien weg sind, ist das größte Problem. Gut zu sehen am Beispiel Matrix/Element, wo man alles hätte besser machen können. (1/?)

The Transition9 movement works for the natural integration of human and next-level artificial intelligence in harmony with a new nature-inspired computing architecture.

We've described Transition9 in rather technical terms to date.

The far harder challenge is writing about it in ways everyone might understand regardless of their own expertise, experience, and talents.

Here is Transition9's “Explain it to me like I’m a teenager”

https://transition9.ai/explainer.html

Pochwalę się, bo udało się pomóc zrobić coś wartościowego społecznie w ramach mojej działalności w @koop i współpracy z @warroza który to prowadzi ten projekt i jest autorem pomysłu na niego:

Społeczny Portal Gminy Brwinów

Więcej tutaj:
https://mastodon.com.pl/@koop/114398562201757052

Jeśli interesują Was takie rozwiązania, oparte o Wolne Oprogramowanie, jesteśmy do dyspozycji :)

https://blog.brwinow.gmina.pl/brwinow/kto-za-tym-wszystkim-stoi

Wejście do Portalu:
https://brwinow.gmina.pl

Myown #UnplugTrump to more digital sovereignty

If you’ve been following my blog, you know that I’m gradually moving away from “classical” Big Tech social media, focusing more on Mastodon and my own homepage.

On Mastodon, I came across Elena Rossini and followed her journey toward greater digital sovereignty. Inspired by her example, I decided to give up my YouTube channel in favor of a self-hosted PeerTube instance.

[…]

https://www.locked.de/myown-unplugtrump-to-more-digital-sovereignty/

Both Mastodon and Bluesky offer decentralized alternatives, but only one puts users first. While Bluesky’s VC-backed model serves shareholder interests, Mastodon’s nonprofit structure safeguards a truly open internet. The future of social media shouldn’t be for sale.

https://phillipjreese.com/the-social-network-that-cant-sell-out-understanding-mastodon-vs-bluesky/

Tired of big tech controlling your data? Join me on Diaspora! It's like Facebook but prioritises your privacy & decentralisation. Take control of your social experience. https://champ.ly/w4LvbCvh #PrivacyMatters #Decentralize #FringeFriends

Tired of big tech controlling your data? Join me on Diaspora! It's like Facebook but prioritises your privacy & decentralisation. Take control of your social experience. https://champ.ly/w4LvbCvh #PrivacyMatters #Decentralize

Spring collection - out now! Tell your friends ;-)

OK, after countless hours and months of waiting for parts to arrive, I finally have a decent prototype!

Everything fits nicely. The mounting holes line up with the PCBs. The wires are messy, but that is just because it's a prototype.

Next up: many hours of testing and trying to get the current sensor reporting what the solar panels are generating.

Thinking about switching to #peertube with my tutorials. Any suggestions about which instance to use? I think some of my videos are already there, bc I released them under the appropriate copyright license and other people downloaded them from YouTube and uploaded to PeerTube. #OpenStreetMap #decentralize #fucktrump

I'm decentralizing my #social #media.

Email/Calendar: #Proton.me
Browser/Search Engine: #DuckDuckGo
Social Media: #BlueSky & #Mastadon ( #Pixelfed)
TikTok Replacement: #Xiaohongshu
#Spotify Replacement: #SoundCloud

Now to further #decentralize my technology & #media from corrupt/lobbying entities, I need to get #GooglePhotos / #GSuite out of the mix.

Any #suggestions?

The European Union must keep funding free software.
https://matrix.org/blog/2024/07/17/ngi-open-letter/

Following #OFFDEM, @natacha and @how were interviewed by @len and g1smo@toot.si on Slovenian FM 89.3 Radio Študent Ljubjana, in their #radio show #tehnoklistir about #Synware.

We talked about OFFDEM, free software syndicates, and touched many decolonial topics about #FreeSoftware, #Licensing, #Funding, and the grassroots. Cheers to @spacekookie and @irdest!

https://radiostudent.si/druzba/tehno-klistir/synware

Sorry for the abundance of "huh". #Decentralize and organize! Fight the power!